Guy Berger, Director for Freedom of Expression and Media Development at UNESCO, also led a session encouraging participation by the academic community in the Internet-issues study. A panel of experts provided initial comments to specific questions in the list of 30 questions which the study seeks to answer.

They included reknown researchers such as Robin Mansell, Carlos Affonsa de Souza, Sunil Abrahim, Stefania Milan and Anita Gurumurthy.Berger also contributed to another session on the ecology of Internet governance, explaining UNESCO’s draft concept of Internet Universality which has informed the Internet-issues study.